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5 mistakes you’re probably making when you give feedback

Suzi McAlpine

If you’re still not sure whether nailing feedback conversations should be one of your main skills to prioritise as a leader, check out these studies: Gallup data shows that when employees receive “meaningful feedback”, they are almost four times more likely than other employees to be engaged. Meaningful feedback isn’t the norm, however. In another recent… The post 5 mistakes you’re probably making when you give feedback first appeared on Suzi McAlpine | The Art of Leadership.

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The Power of Delegation: How to Lead and Empower Your Team

Lolly Daskal

As an executive leadership coach, I often see leaders struggle with how to effectively delegate tasks and projects to their team in a way that empowers and motivates them. Many leaders worry that if they don’t do a job themselves, it won’t be done right. But there are ways to ensure that tasks and projects are completed successfully while also empowering and motivating your team.

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Six Leadership Tips To Address Housing’s Challenging Times

Forbes Leadership

Business transformation has been critical in the past three years, putting an unnatural strain on leaders. Add those pressures to the growing housing crisis for the perfect storm of leadership challenges. Experts offer tips on how to adjust to today's times.

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HR’s Complete Guide to the Employee Handbook 

AIHR

An employee handbook should be the backbone of any organization to provide guidance and clarity on all HR-related items. Every HR team spends significant time and energy answering employee HR-related questions. With a well-crafted manual in place, not only do you have a reference point for employees to turn to when they have questions or concerns, but it also helps create a more streamlined, efficient HR process.

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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Is ChatGPT Going to Change Search Marketing?

Chief Outsiders

Microsoft’s recent announcement on adding ChatGPT AI Technology to Bing must be sending warning signals to Google on the future of search marketing. With the integration of ChatGPT in Bing, the search engine will be able to provide results in a natural language – more conversational than a list of links that is today’s norm.

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6 Ways to Encourage Your Employees to Reach Their Full Potential

Lolly Daskal

You know you found the right leader for your career when they are eager to take an active interest in your growth and success. The best leaders know how to get the most out of people. Here are six ways the most effective leaders encourage their employees to reach their full potential: Promote individually: When promoting individually, this means giving specific goals and objectives to work towards.

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How to Prepare for Performance Management Conversations

Scott Elbin

For a number of my executive coaching clients, it’s the time of year when they’re wrapping up annual performance review conversations. As is usually the case, some of those are easy and fun, and others are hard and stress-inducing. Whether they’re part of an annual cycle, or much more useful, a timely pull-up on recent performance, performance management conversations are a fact of corporate life.

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HR’s Guide to Analyzing and Lowering Attrition Rate

AIHR

The attrition rate indicates the percentage of employees who leave an organization compared to the average population employed over a specified period. It is also referred to as termination , planned or voluntary resignation, structural changes, and layoffs. This guide will detail how to calculate attrition rate, factors that impact attrition, and how to analyze your company’s attrition rate score.

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4 Ways to Motivate Your Team Without Stressing Them Out

Lolly Daskal

Motivating your team can be a difficult task, especially if you don’t want to add any extra stress to their already busy schedules. However, there are several ways you can motivate your team without stressing them out. Here are five effective strategies: Allow team members to be in the driver seat: One of the biggest motivators for employees is the ability to have control over their work.

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Disability Rights Advocates Speak Out Against Candace Owens’ Harmful Comments On Disability Representation

Forbes Leadership

The disabled community has been working tirelessly to break down attitudinal barriers and create more inclusive spaces in all areas of life, including fashion. Owens' comments were harmful and demonstrated a lack of understanding of disability rights, accessibility and representation.

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The Diversity Reckoning: Can HR Survive Without New Perspectives?

Speaker: Jeremy York

2024 has tested every organization, and 2025 promises no less - the warning signs are everywhere. If you’re relying on superficial approaches to diversity, you might find yourself scrambling to catch up. Thought diversity - the fuel for new ideas, fresh perspectives, and disruptive innovation - is more than a buzzword. It's a survival strategy. And if you’re not building it into your workplace culture right now , you’re heading for trouble.

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Learn How to Start Journaling. It’s a Ritual Worth the Time

BetterUp

Did you know one of the most powerful self-improvement activities is right at your fingertips? No, it’s not working out or having good sleep hygiene (although these are great habits). It’s something even simpler — learning how to start journaling.

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Leaders Love Puzzles (for Better and for Worse)

Ed Batista

An observation drawn from my practice is that leaders love puzzles. So do many people, of course, but typically as an absorbing hobby. In my experience a disproportionate number of leaders exhibit an almost obsessive need to tackle and solve complex problems, and this trait is one of the factors that drove them to seek out (or create) a leadership role, which reliably presents them with any number of "puzzles" to solve on a daily basis.

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Stagnation in Leadership: How to Avoid Getting Stuck in the Weeds

Lolly Daskal

As an executive leadership coach, I have firsthand seen the price that companies pay when their leaders become overwhelmed in the details or preoccupied with the specifics that they fail to see the bigger picture. This stagnation not only affects the leader’s own leadership, but also the teams they lead and the entire organization. Some consequences of stagnation in leadership include: Decreased employee morale: When a leader is buried in minutia, it leaves employees disengaged or frustrat

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Money Buddies: Don’t Go It Alone with Your Wallet

Nir Eyal

Now, more than ever, we have to be smart with our money. Yet navigating our personal finances and adhering to a budget can be a daunting task. However, there’s a free and fun technique that anyone can use to get back on track with their finances: getting a money buddy. The post Money Buddies: Don’t Go It Alone with Your Wallet appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Recognition Powers High-Performance — If You Do it Right

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg

Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.

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Want To Be An Entrepreneur? Think Like A Pilot

Forbes Leadership

While you don’t have to be a member of the Mensa Society to command an aircraft, you do need a combination of some unique traits if you are to get through the rigors of flight training. Those traits mirror ones required to be an entrepreneur.

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Communicating Goals to Your Organization

Thought Leaders LLC

Once you’ve built some great goals, you need to communicate them to the organization. Operating in silos leads to missed opportunities. Once you’ve built some great goals, you need to communicate them to the organization. People in your department need to understand how their own goals, as well as the goals of their colleagues, tie to the broader organization goals.

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6 Things Successful Leaders do to Retain Their Top Talent

Lolly Daskal

As a leader, it’s important to consider how to retain top talent in order to have a successful team. One key way to do this is by creating an employee value proposition that truly resonates with your employees. Successful leaders understand that this proposition must be meaningful enough to make a real difference in the lives of their team members.

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A CEO’s Guide to Growth | Part 1

Chief Outsiders

Part 1: Introducing the GROW Blueprint In less than 30 years, the lifespan of an S&P 500 company declined from an average of ~ 32 years in 1996 to a projected 19 years in 2023. By 2030, experts predict companies will last a mere 17 years. The trends will be no different for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Top Private School Applications Surge Amidst South Florida’s Real Estate Boom

Forbes Leadership

Enrollment at top private schools in South Florida is booming, as many out-of-state families have moved to South Florida in the years since the pandemic, seeking sunny weather, and escaping state income tax.

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Why Productivity Isn’t Everything for Leaders

Association Now Leadership

Intense focus on meeting your goals has its virtues—and its drawbacks. Better leadership, experts say, means diversifying leadership styles. There’s no one wrong way to be a leader—except, perhaps, being overly committed to the idea that there’s one right way of doing things. Consider the case of Elon Musk, who since taking over Twitter last year has worked to institute a productivity-focused, “hardcore” workplace culture at the social media platform.

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Automatic Influence: How Your Perception Influences Everything You Do

Michael McKinney

I T ALL STARTS with perception. Everything we feel, every choice we make, and everything we do all starts with our perception of our environment. Our perceptions automatically influence our feeling, and they in turn, automatically influence our actions. Perception is powerful. Erik Van Alstine takes us through the various ways the See-Feel-Act Progression influences everything we do in Automatic Influence: New Power for Change in Work and Life.

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Thinking Outside The 9-Box

Chief Executive

For time immemorial (well, since the 1970s when it was developed by McKinsey & Co.) , the 9-box grid has been the model used for succession planning. Although it’s still firmly on the curriculum of many MBA programs and entrenched in organizational talent models, it’s actually well beyond its expiry date. While there are alternatives, they’re currently underused as organizations can be reluctant to move away from this tried-and-tested approach.

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How To Empower Your Workforce With Modern Fertility Benefits

Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski

In an era where a workforce spans multiple generations, HR managers and Total Rewards leaders face the unique challenge of designing benefits packages that cater to diverse employee needs. This session will delve into how comprehensive fertility benefits can bridge generational gaps, support employees’ health, and enhance workplace satisfaction. Join us for an insightful session that highlights the strategic importance of fertility benefits in today’s competitive job market.

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More Than Half Of College Students Believe Using ChatGPT To Complete Assignments Is Cheating

Forbes Leadership

Over half of college students believe that using artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT to complete assignments and exams is cheating. That's one of the key findings from new BestColleges survey of 1,000 current undergraduate and graduate students, conducted this March.

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How To Use The MOVE Framework To Be A More Effective Leader

Eric Jacobson

In their new book, Real-Time Leadership , leadership coaches David Noble and Carol Kauffman teach leaders how to use their unique MOVE framework to help leaders adjust their reflexive reactions and optimize their responses to any situation – including unexpected and complex leadership challenges. The MOVE framework includes these four key elements : M : Be Mindfully Alert.

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Leading Thoughts for March 23, 2023

Michael McKinney

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Bob Chapman , Chairman and CEO of Barry-Wehmiller, on developing human potential: “When somebody comes into our organization and agrees to join us, when we invite them into our organization, we become stewards of that life, just as we are when a child comes into our life.

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How Teaching Myself Drums Made Me A Better CEO

Chief Executive

I began playing drums in sixth grade because I loved the book Who Is Bugs Potter ? It’s the story of an amazing teenage drummer who sneaks into rock clubs to play with his favorite bands, helping a shy kid come out of his shell along the way. It lit a spark in me. I spent hours behind the kit practicing, learning to understand and emulate the beats behind the Blink-182 and Green Day songs omnipresent on the radio.

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Behind The Curtain: How Todays Political Climate is Steering HR and DEI in 2025

Speaker: Hanh Nguyen

In today’s ever-changing world, HR professionals often find themselves juggling conflicting priorities - especially when external factors seem out of their control. As we traverse the unpredictable waters of the current political and economic landscape, we find ourselves at a crossroads. For HR leaders, understanding how these external forces shape our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts is crucial.

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Beauty Pageants And Academia – The Perfect Contradiction?

Forbes Leadership

When you think of beauty pageants, what comes to mind? Probably not academia, social responsibility or sustainable finance. Dr Ana Nacvalovaite, Research fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, says otherwise. Aside from being a distinguished academic Ana is also Mrs Great Britain.

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Wizard or Witch? How to Keep Your Business Ahead of the Tornado

Chief Outsiders

My little sister, the owner of an upscale hair salon in Georgia, called last week. Twice. No message. In our family that means a twister has touched down in the backyard, so “call me back – now.” I eventually reached my dear sis and she spat, in a Wizard-of-Oz-Lions-and-Tigers-and-Bears-Oh-My tone of voice, her concerns over the economy. The collapse of two banks.

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Team Conflict: How to Manage a Disconnect Between Members of Your Leadership Team

SME Strategy

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. Our strategic planning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategic plan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization.

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Why ‘Smart’ Isn’t What It Used To Be

Chief Executive

After every great crisis, the great re-boot begins.  This has been the case after everything from wars to economic shocks to famines, hurricanes and floods. And it is happening now with the presumed worst of the global pandemic behind us. As we navigate the complex path to recovery, the personal costs of chronic stress, isolation and prolonged insecurity are making their way onto business balance sheets.

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Engage, Empower, Excel: Transforming Performance in the New Era of Work

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

The world of work has fundamentally changed. The series of waves that the pandemic began have rippled through the Great Resignation, quiet quitting, the Great Regret, and other eloquent phrases that boil down to the same thing: people aren’t engaged at work or enabled to perform at their best. The truth is that engagement and enablement is more important than ever, but how we do it is the critical differentiator for many organizations.